Hunt: Showdown
Mar 26, 2020
4 minutes
Developer Crytek
Publisher Koch Media
Format PC, PS4 (tested), Xbox One
Release Out now
Real innovation in today’s FPS genre is heard, and not seen. Where once 3D lighting and open-world tech marked the path of progress, the most accomplished shooters are now identified by plugging in your headphones and listening to the player-made percussion on offer. In , that means settling down with the free jazz of the forest: the telltale squeak of a lantern’s hinge, backed by the crunch of a branch beneath a heavy boot. A dissonant choir of crows disturbed by footfall, inspiring an impassioned screaming solo from a nearby Hive. And finally, crescendo: the hiss of dynamite or, and not necessarily advised.
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